Adjective: accommodative
Pronunciation: (u’kó-mu,dey-tiv)
Accommodative meaning:
- Helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation
Synonyms: accommodating
- Willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement
Synonyms: cooperative
- Tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony
Synonyms: reconciling
Quotations:
- Peter Kretzmer – The main point is that when they sit down, they will conclude that what we want to do is to continue to remove the accommodative policy.
- Elizabeth Mackay – When monetary policy turns more accommodative, the more cyclical, leveraged and more-volatile asset classes generally outdistance defensive names.
- Robert DiClemente – Under these conditions, policy-makers will want to maintain a continued period of very low interest rates and highly accommodative financial conditions to propel aggregate demand well above the upper end of reasonable estimates of potential growth.
Sample sentences:
- The Reserve Bank of India is in an accommodative phase of monetary policy, meaning it is looking to reduce interest rates, RBI Gov. Raghuram Rajan said.
- Then comes easy money by accommodative central banks to provide the air financing for the bubble to grow bigger and bigger.
- Major equity indexes have rallied towards new highs, as traders and investors got what they expected: an accommodative FOMC statement.
- Strong credit growth and faster government spending in June provide evidence that China’s accommodative policies are gaining traction.
- The U.S. central bank seems it will stay accommodative for longer, said Jeffrey Gundlach, chief executive of Double Line Capital.
- The Reserve Bank of Australia says slow wage growth will keep inflation low and monetary policy will be accommodative.
- Less accommodative monetary policy is yet another reason to reduce market exposure, one Stifel portfolio manager argues.
- After seven years of the most accommodative monetary policy in history, the Fed OKed a quarter-point rate increase.
- But as inflation has come under pressure, the Fed elected to maintain its accommodative position.
- The Fed could maintain their accommodative stance for longer than many anticipate.
- Japan’s economy has turned the corner and monetary policy has moved away from being ultra-accommodative. In that sort of an environment, you’d expect the currency to appreciate.
- With accommodative monetary policy, I think we are in the right place and moving in the right direction.
- Simply because the Fed is maintaining an accommodative monetary policy position doesn’t mean they keep the fed funds rate at one percent indefinitely.
- You look at this and all you can say is, yes, monetary policy remains accommodative, it’s not even neutral yet, and interest rates are too low in that they still fuel the speculative purchase of housing activity.
- Both sides have shown an accommodative stance to get to talks. This could be a strategic move, but the basic thing is that there shouldn’t be a situation where war could be a reasonable expectation.
- The ECB is confident about the pace of the recovery and the forces driving the recovery and thinks it is time to remove the excess stimulus put in three years ago. Rates are still accommodative.
- The removal of accommodative basically is signaling the beginning of the end of rate hikes.
- Under these conditions, policy makers will want to maintain a continued period of very low interest rates and highly accommodative financial conditions to propel aggregate demand well above the upper end of reasonable estimates of potential growth.
- It’s almost a boilerplate meeting. At the last meeting there was widespread expectation that they would remove their pledge to maintain accommodative policy for ‘a considerable period.’ But the December employment figures made it very apparent that the job market continues to lag, and most observers have come to the conclusion that the Fed really does need to stay accommodative.
- A flattening yield curve typically is indicative of the bond market’s view that the Fed as being less accommodative.
- Certainly, current policy is ultra-accommodative and no policy-maker believes that it is consistent with price stability.
- We have central banks that are trying to frame exit strategies from unusually accommodative conditions.
- I think their general view will be more upbeat, but it remains to be seen how upbeat, because they don’t want to cannibalize their main message, which is that policy will remain accommodative for a considerable period.
- Monetary policy has to be somewhat accommodative, since a tightening in credit will likely cause liquidity difficulties in businesses that are suffering from overcapacity.
- Inflation is still higher than nominal interest rates, and this is a clear sign that monetary conditions are highly accommodative in Malaysia and the need for interest rates to return to a neutral level.
- When monetary policy turns more accommodative, the more cyclical, leveraged and more-volatile asset classes generally outdistance defensive names.
- I think policy is currently quite accommodative. I think it can remain quite accommodative for a while to come.
- To keep cyclical price pressures and any transitory spike in energy prices from permanently disrupting the price environment, the Fed will have to continue shifting monetary policy from its current somewhat accommodative stance to a more neutral one.
- To do otherwise would run the risk that monetary policy would be too accommodative, pulling resources from the future in a way that would alter the trajectory for the growth of the capital stock, perhaps amplifying the imbalances, and compromising the price stability.
- It is appropriate to maintain an accommodative monetary policy stance, in order to provide some insurance against unwelcome disinflation.